Keith Darcé, “Airport ‘Junk’ Up for Word of the Year” (San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 30, 2010)
Junk “is a strong candidate” for the title, said Ben Zimmer, a member of the society’s executive council who writes the “On Language” column for The New York Times Magazine.
The word became a pop-culture favorite in November after Oceanside software engineer John Tyner, 31, used it as part of a warning to Lindbergh Field security agents.
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